Análise da disposição final de rejeitos nos municípios que compoem o IAP – regional de Cascavel

Abstract

The institution of the National Solid Waste Policy, law number 12.305/2010, determined, among other, that cities should dispose their waste in an environmentally correct way in sanitary landfills. This study aimed to verify how the disposal of waste is happening in the 19 cities monitored by the Environmental Institute of Parana (IAP). Cascavel Regional Unit. It was verified that 42% of the cities dispose their waste incorrectly in controlled sanitary landfills. Regarding the distribution of waste to be disposed in sanitary landfills, 91% of the cities send their waste to outsourced sanitary landfills, which confirms the difficulty that cities have in managing their urban solid waste. It was also analyzed how is the disposal of waste in Brazil and it was observed that the cities under the monitoring of the IAP- Cascavel Regional Unit, dispose their waste more adequately than cities located in the north, northwest and center west regions of Brazil. Results indicate that there is still a lot to be done concerning waste disposal, not only in the cities studied but all over the country, to meet the requirements of the National Solid Waste Policy.